Film Series for Made in Germany?—Intergenerational Identities
When:
Sunday, Oct 20, 2024 2:00p -
4:00p
Sunday, Oct 20, 2024 2:00p -
4:00p
Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, Good for Groups, Movies
Event website:
https://bit.ly/403ksWl
Magda Korsinsky’s KNITTING, the Documentary (2020; original German title: STRICKEN, der Dokumentarfilm) features interviews with six Black German women whose fathers were Black and mothers were white. Focusing on their relationships with their white grandmothers who lived during the Nazi regime, the women detail how racism shaped their family histories while also articulating how categories like race, gender, and heritage fail to define who they are.
James Gregory Atkinson’s 6 Friedberg-Chicago (2021) is set in the American Ray Barracks in Friedberg, Germany, where Atkinson was raised by his Black American father and white German mother. Through pose, gesture, and choreography, the 17 men in the film—whose fathers or grandfathers were also stationed in Friedberg—reactivate the military space and complicate the notion of belonging to a distinct identity.
Viewers may find the content of these films disturbing.
About the films:
KNITTING, the Documentary, 2020 (Magda Korsinsky; German with English subtitles; 62 min.)
6 Freidberg-Chicago, 2021 (James Gregory Atkinson; English; 6 min.)
This film series is curated by Peter Murphy, the Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation (September 13, 2024–January 5, 2025).
Free admission, but seating is limited and registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form, beginning Thursday, October 10, after 10am.
The event will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Doors will open at 1:30pm.
